1. Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5)
May 8, 2019

2. Delaware's Focus
Delaware’s application is framed by four priorities that map to the five required activities, and reinforce one another:
Coordinated services across the B-5 mixed delivery system
B-5 data integration
Tools to foster parent knowledge-building and choice
Professional learning across sectors using shared whole child development language
Italicized activities are now not as high of a priority due to funding reduction; Delaware will adjust priorities and activities accordingly with interagency team who wrote the grant.

3. PDG B-5 Opportunities
Provides an opportunity to renew the state’s current five-year early childhood strategic plan that ended in (Sustaining Early Success, Delaware’s Strategic Plan for a Comprehensive Early Childhood System, 2013).
Support for parental choice activities and best practices sharing activities already underway
Build on the progress Delaware has made in strengthening its services and supports for its youngest learners and their families and provides

4. Activity 1: Needs Assessment and Activity 2: Strategic Plan
Activity 1A and 1B planned to last approximately 5 months
Activity 2 planned to last approximately 6 months
More than plan in original grant due to reduction in funding and refocus on Activity 1 and 2
Provide vendors with background research on existing needs assessments already prepared
Provide vendors with family members and professionals that should be interviewed
In person interviews – one on one, meetings
Surveys and focus groups

5. Activities 3: Parent Choice and Activity 4: Sharing Best Practices
Activity 3 – Maximizing Parent Knowledge and Choice
Activity 4 – Sharing Best Practices
The scale of these activities reduced to reflect the changes in grant funding
Finalize planning teams and hold initial sessions to set priorities reflecting the funding and coordinating with ongoing initiatives
Activity
Grant Request
Revised Budget
Maximizing Parent Knowledge and Choice
$460,000
$55,000
Best Practice Sharing
$152,160
$60,000
IF any one wants to be on interview panel, contact Caitlin. Internal IT resources are supporting selection.

6. Engagement
Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five website on DOE page:
Updates on how to participate in:
Needs assessment “opportunity map” generation
Solutions brainstorming for design of strategic plan
Existing parental choice activities underway
Existing sharing best practice activities underway
Italicized activities are now not as high of a priority due to funding reduction; Delaware will adjust priorities and activities accordingly with interagency team who wrote the grant.

7. Thank you! Questions? Please reach out to Caitlin Gleason Education Dept. of Education, Office of Early Learning